Sod it - a thread about a thread - but lunchbox contents - really??!!

[CateBlanket]

Is my child the only one who never has any of the following in her lunchbox:

hummus/hummous
chorizo (have no idea how you pronounce it)
smoked salmon trimmings
a spinach cake
homemade pear and ginger muffin
guacamole
bagel with pastrami & smoked cheese
Cous cous
minted lamb

any kind of fruit, veg or salad

Please tell me that there are MNetters who send their children to school with a cheese sandwich on white bread, a frube and a Penguin?

And squash (the drink not the veg).

[Jux]

DD had either a salami or a cheese sandwich (on white bread), an apple, a small kit kat. That was what she would eat and what I could get done in the mornings. She drank water though

She's 14 and that's still what she gets. She goes mental (in a very demure and polite way) if we give her anything else.

The rest of her meals are fab though. And she loves liver, but I wouldn't put it in a packed lunch.

[NeedAdvice2014]

I score most of your list, including the spinach cake

I get called "worthy" a lot on Mumsnet. But I'm happy with what I feed my DCs. Aren't you?

[RobinSparkles]

DD1 takes:
Sandwich - sometimes cheese, sometimes ham, sometimes tuna mayo if we're being exotic, but usually cheese or ham. Seeded brown bread.
Some grapes
Crisps
Biscuit
Yoghurt.

I've tried giving her healthier stuff but it comes home uneaten and crushed into the lining of her lunch box although she wolfs it down at home.

[therenter]

Ham and cucumber wrap
frube (moshi monsters!!)
Piece of fruit
snack of some kind
squash

mine would be disgusted if I put any smoked salmon/hummus, rye bread etc in they're lunch lol.

[NeedAdvice2014]

Spinach cake is lovely by the way. Potato, spinach and cheese, baked. Try it, you might even like it!

[ssd]

ds is now in high school

he's had a ham sandwich on white bread since day one of P1

all this whats in your kids lunchbox is bragging at its worse

[NeedAdvice2014]

It's my DCs' favourite, having overtaken sweetcorn muffins and broccoli bites

[NeedAdvice2014]

To be fair sad the original thread was asking for ideas. No one made the OP of this one start a TAAT to mock other people's choices.

[PinkSquash]

DS1 has a sandwich, usually ham cheese and pickle on 50/50 bread, pizza, pasta or "meat free fingers". He also has a cheese string (high numbers FTW!), veg pot, fruit pot, crisps and sometimes a chocolate bar.

He has to take water as he needs to keep his drink by his desk in the hope he'll have a drink.

[PinkSquash]

Spinach cake sounds lovely btw, something we'd have hot for dinner.

[NeedAdvice2014]

TBH it is better hot. But then Babybels and Frubes are minging after sitting in a lunch box, out of the fridge and probably in direct sunlight all morning. The

[CateBlanket]

Thank you for all your replies - I feel that, at last, I have found my people

Anyone for a Blue Ribband or a cheese straw

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

NeedAdvice, dd's lunches got far more interesting once we'd dispensed with the idea of including things which really should be refrigerated during the day. In fact, a thermos pot has been a brilliant purchase because dd can effectively take in a hot lunch.

How is giving people ideas for lunchboxes bragging? It's like those threads people start on loud parenting. Ascribing motives to normal parenting and sneering at them. It's unkind and unfair.

[picnicbasketcase]

Mine have a sandwich, a piece of fruit, a drink, and a yogurt or biscuit/ cereal bar or crisps as their 'treat' item. If I gave them hummus, pasta salad or chorizo they'd just at me and refuse to eat it.

[Geraldthegiraffe]

Mine doesn't have hummous anymore after I realised it made her breath absolutely stink to high heaven each time she had it. Poor child.

I assumed most people put fruit/veg in and I also thought the penguin type thing wasn't encouraged in schools these days.

I want a recipe for spinach cake now...

[HavannaSlife]

Mine wouldn't eat any of the top list. Ds2 had chicken wrap, frube, apple and banana today but he's just as likely to have a bag of crisps sandwich or choc

[mummytowillow]

I do! My DD ( 6 ) has sane everyday.

Sandwich thin or brown bread with cheese, yoghurt or smoothie, babybel or similar, grapes and cereal bar.

At least two of those come home!

[Indith]

our school just ask us to make packed lunches healthy in a general sense, there is no banned list. However I give mine school dinners because I simply cannot be arsed to make interesting and varied lunches for them. I find it hard enough doing lunch for myself.

[meddie]

my son went to school for 2 years with a jam sandwich (only sandwich he would eat. I gave up with anything else as he was skinny as it was and he just wouldnt eat anything else) a babybel, packet of crisps, chocolate bar and a yazoo milk shake ( thanks mother for introducing him to them and then he refused any other drinks).
He know eats absolutely anything and everything, is 6ft 2 and his head totally failed to fall off.
You pick your battles and getting him to eat hummus wasnt one of them

[meddie]

*now not know

[Redjack]

I think mine would eat everything on that list bar the spinach cake. They had lamb tikka masala and a homemade banana muffin for lunch today - mock away, they loved it! I like cooking, I like food, so shoot me.

[honeybeeridiculous]

DS, 16 took to school today, as most days:
White ham roll
Dairylea dipper
Sausage roll
Packet of walkers crisps
2x2 finger kit kats
1 apple
1 orange
Handful of grapes
He's always 'starving' when he gets home, is 6ft 3 and skinny as a rake, eats all his meals and veggies but I think if I gave him a spinach cake or asparagus muffin he may use it for target practice
Life's too short, Iv learnt!

[MrsBungle]

My dd has school dinners but tomorrow she's going on a trip do I've done a packed lunch:
Ham wrap
Little sandwich bag which has 2 mini sausages and some Pom bears in!
A little bag with grapes, strawberries and blueberries
A yoghurt pouch
An angel cake.
She'll never eat all that but it's a treat for her trip

[JerseySpud]

Mine gets a sandwich/sausage roll, yoghurt tube, piece of fruit and cereal bar...

[JerseySpud]

oh and at the moment? A fruit shoot